Last week, 14 law firm workers were fired, apparently, for wearing orange shirts in an orange-shirt free environment.

The drama took place in Florida, a lawless swampland where the air hangs thick with injustice and malformed logic. However, even for Florida, the initial details of this case seem sketchy.

According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 14 workers wearing orange shirts were dismissed from their positions at the Law Offices of Elizabeth R. Wellborn last Friday after an executive accused them of wearing the color in a threatening protest against management.

The workers claim they were wearing the orange shirts as a sign of boozy brotherhood, so that they would look like a group (of convicts?) when they went out for happy hour after work.

Under the "at-will" doctrine of U.S. Law, Florida workers not under contract can be fired at any time, for any reason, as long as that reason is not illegal.

While a spokeswoman for the firm had no comment, an oh snap-laden video interview with fired employee Janice Doble posted on the Sun-Sentinel website provides some additional insight on what may have been the motivation behind the firing.

Here's a partial transcript. It sounds like things were kind of tense.

"We had a group of people going out to happy hour at a club, Vegas. We all get together, usually on a payday Friday. [We had t-shirts printed for the occasions but] we're not allowed to wear them at work because of a word they state. So we decided to wear orange. A new manager…started [in our office] on March 2nd. I guess she had a complex about her tanning. She's orange. So they said we were actually threatening Elizabeth Wellborn, [who] was nowhere in the building to be found when [the firing] was going on. Her husband was the one that fired us." (Emphasis added.)

Now we are left to wonder:
1. What is the unspeakable word printed on the t-shirts?
2. Just how orange is that new manager?